Try a Colomba cake while in Rome for Easter! Our tips for the best artisanal ones

“The cake that tastes like spring.” This is how Colomba (dove) was presented to Italians in 1930, when one of the biggest panettone makers – Motta – decided to use the same machineries, techniques and more or less the same ingredients to make another cake, the dove-shaped colomba (peace symbol) for Easter, the most important Catholic feast.

You can find many different industrial colombe for as little as 4 euros in supermarkets, but if you want something better for this relatively recent traditional Italian Easter cake, here are some tips.

These are our preferred artisanal colombe in Rome.

1.Volpetti. Made with an 80 year-old mother yeast from the Pescara province.

2.Romeo. By Iginio Massari, one of the best bakers in the country, a leavening guru from Brescia.